PARIS | The Link | 242m / 793 ft | 51 floors

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Pics by Vincent Montcuit

[JMKeynes]

Very nice!

[mousquet]

I forgot to visit this site today, cause they've only got foundation started.
But it's officially under construction, as shown here.

[mousquet]

5 cranes on site; they won't be wasting any time.
My pics, yesterday.

[colemonkee]

NICE!!!! I'll move this to the Under Construction subforum.

[lakeshoredrive]

Really excited to see this building in person when completed next time I return to Paris. Will this be the tallest building in the La Defense area?

[mousquet]

^ Yes, but there's a roughly 40m / 130 ft crown to it.

I think roof height is more relevant here and the top floor will be exactly 200m / 656 ft above the ground.

There's a somewhat annoying reason for it.
According to local regulations, safety standards are not the same when a top floor exceeds 200m.
In such a case, they go more requiring and definitely more costly.

La Défense not being the real prime location of the metro area, so far developers or businesses renting their buildings have seen no interest in surpassing the threshold enforced by the French regulator.
Everyone just wants to optimize their profits.

So you get 50 floors for 200m, that's an average ceiling height of roughly 4m (13 feet) per floor, which is ok.
The tower is developed by TotalEnergies for their employees. Given the spot, they will enjoy exclusive views over the inner city until more towers are built around that one.

[Urbannizer]

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threa...post-184021588

[mousquet]

They put a couple of rows of cladding panels up to the first floors, but there's nothing much to see about it yet.
It is still a bare concrete structure for now.

I'll post an update on here when there are more significant changes.

[mousquet]

I took a few pics of it this morning.
The sky quickly turned gray, gloomy with an annoying little rain.

Large building anyway. It's actually made up of 2 towers connected by a column of footbridges. Hence the name of it, the "Link".
Floors are put together 2 by 2 as some sort of duplexes, so to speak. The standard floor area of a resulting "duplex" would be of 6,000 m² (~65k sq ft).
This is to keep work spaces as horizontal as possible and spare people working in a same team from wasting too much time in elevators.


2309_link_01 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_02 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_03 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_04 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_05 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_06 by mousquet, sur Flickr

The edge of those fish scales are small solar panels. That's obviously the cool feature of the facade.


2309_link_07 by mousquet, sur Flickr


2309_link_08 by mousquet, sur Flickr

The tallest of the 2 towers is roughly 242 m tall, but the top floor would be at 199.84 m, to be very accurate.
If it was over 200 m, the regulation wouldn't be the same and would cost more to the owner of the building.
So there's a crown that must be something like 35 m tall to the roof of that tallest component.
The shorter tower is 178 m tall.
The whole thing feels pretty big when you stand in front of it.

[Busy Bee]

Love the curves. Très bien!

[colemonkee]

Love the solar panels built into the facade, and so far the facade looks very promising.

[Charmy2]

That facade is REALLY interesting

[BanBrokenChatBots]

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/eurazeo-...sics-1.2025939




The La Defense financial district on the city skyline, viewed from the Arc de Triomph in central Paris, France, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the government will present a bill of measures aimed at luring more foreign financial firms to the euro area’s second-largest economy. , Bloomberg

[mousquet]

There are too many offices in that district already. The local office market is struggling right now.
I wonder how the minister will lure more corporations than there already are on that very spot.
Does he think he can turn France into a tax haven? Laughable wishful thinking.
That's not even necessary anyway.

If only they were a bit less inept and awkward...

They just should build residential towers over that district, to make it more mixed-use and desirable.
No one wants to live there cause it's only offices and work work work.

[mousquet]

I might go to Puteaux one of these days to take some pics.
Meanwhile, here's a couple of shots by Arthur Weidmann.

Feb. 2.
Looking massive from a street of Puteaux's old town.


The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr

March 4.
Starting to stick out in la Défense's skyline.


La Défense by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr

[mousquet]

April 1, 2024.


The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr

Latest pictures (from early June) here.

[mousquet]

These are from early August, a month ago.


La Défense by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr


The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr


The Link by Arthur Weidmann, sur Flickr

Arthur Weidmann

More recent pictures and details over here.